Deep in the core of most galaxies, hidden by spinning clouds of gas and dust, black holes spin like cosmic engines. These ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black ...

Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made ...

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery ...

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, which swirls inward until it eventually vanishes into a gravitational ...

Could black holes help explain the origins of high-energy cosmic radiation? The universe is filled with many forms of ...

Two black holes collided 1.3 billion light years from Earth, creating a 'ringing,' which in turn allowed astrophysicists to test some theories. And it turns out, they were all correct.

The deepest mysteries of the universe often begin with the biggest questions. Few are more puzzling than the birth of supermassive black holes. These giants, weighing millions to billions of times ...